ERIC Number: EJ1492254
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Nov
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-1522-7227
EISSN: EISSN-1522-7219
Available Date: 2025-11-12
'It's Mine!' Infants' Ownership Understanding and Choice Prediction: Exploring the Role of Experiential Factors
Rylie Putrich1; Julie Youngers1; Yuyan Luo1
Infant and Child Development, v34 n6 e70064 2025
Developmental research on ownership understanding has focused on preschool years, with only a limited number of studies with infants. The present study with 19-month-old infants showed that after given information about an agent's ownership of a toy (she claimed 'It's mine!' before grasping the toy), infants, as a group (N = 66, 54.5% female, 77.3% White), accepted that when a new toy was added, the agent could choose either her own toy or the new one. Within the group, however, infants with no siblings (d = 0.494) and those with attachment objects (to a lesser degree; d = 0.525) expected the agent to choose her own toy over the new one. These results highlight the role of these two experiential factors in how infants use ownership information to make predictions about others' choices and thus contribute to the theoretical accounts on the early development of ownership understandings.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 2123485
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

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